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I’m almost done with @tonytula.com’s “Rejection” after starting it last night. It’s so good and also makes me want to log off forever. How am I supposed to post about this book and not ruin my life

An Apple Genmoji capturing my likeness behind the wheel of a car with a beer in hand.

this post is officially sponsored by “Rob driving tipsy”, part of the new unicode spec

apple, 2016: we don’t want our brand to be associated with violence. the gun emoji is now a water pistol.

apple, 2024: you want a “man with a gun emoji?” no problem. you want it to look like your buddy Jake, right?

Google Contract Staff Reach Union Deal Banning Keystroke Monitoring Deal with employer Accenture also protects their ability to work remotely

first ever @alphabetworkers.bsky.social contract was just ratified, let’s fucking go

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

you laugh but this is a real photo of the guy the Dems elected to Oversight Chair instead of AOC

huge congrats to my union siblings in @nytguildtech.bsky.social. this is amazing news!!

@alphabetworkers.bsky.social next 😁

So if our democracy can’t address this universal human need - healthcare without financial ruin - what use is our democracy? And I think that’s basically 2024 in a nutshell - Democrats just trying to protect their way of doing things, letting Trump capture all the anger that actually delivers votes.

In a democracy responsive to the needs of normal people (i.e. one that made it impossible for you to go bankrupt just because you got sick), you would never see this. But every American agrees our healthcare is terrible, and even Obamacare was basically just giving a bandaid to someone bleeding out

I also thought Harris running on “democracy is at risk” was weak before, but this week really crystallized it for me. Parts of the American experience are so broken that Americans online have more or less unanimously celebrated a healthcare CEO being killed.

Newsom, IMO, almost perfectly embodies why so many people hate the Democratic Party.

Looking at 2028 (assuming we have elections), I’m more convinced than ever that electoral success is contingent on rejecting him and everybody like him. The tent is too big and these are the people to kick out.

Better Lovers

donate and then buy one of the best records to come out this year

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health care direct action you can take this week that does *not* involve committing a felony

On many occasions I’ve agonized over whether I’m making a good use of my time alive + contributing more good than bad to the world. I’m going to be a little bit less hard on myself and lower the bar to “mega polarized country wouldn’t unify to celebrate me, otherwise a stranger, being murdered”

Spotify Wrapped is out and this year has an AI generated podcast (courtesy of Google) where two robots will talk about your year in music.

Almost immediately it hallucinated my top artists incorrectly, which is THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE EXERCISE

i’m guessing “junt” is just chuggy guitar riffs in this case? but idk! it’s big baby energy!

seriously though when i was 10 i saw the music video for faint by linkin park and it changed my life - it’s so fun to see both this performance and gojira opening the olympics in the same year, feels like we’re having a moment

credit where credit is due I haven’t seen woke used as a pejorative in this particular context before. also, you’re soft

we call this “building character”

scrolled in a trance for the last 20 minutes trying to come up with a funny post - i think nature might be healing

whoever is doing the marketing for rosemont needs to get promoted, this is getting ridiculous

no worries I’m right here

sorry when i wrote this i was still basking in the biden dropout / brat summer afterglow and forgot the democrats are the biggest losers on the planet

now that there are 20 million people on bluesky I am begging you all to give him the attention he deserves

it’s too exhausting to do this every four years

incredible how quickly Trump falls apart when his opponent can finish a sentence and the moderators fact check him on *checks notes* people eating a bunch of cats

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hi bluesky! google laid off a ton of our news team today. pretty dumb move imo!! all of them are super kind and smart.

I wanna help connect them (Eng, PMs, PgMs, Strat Ops) with leads for new roles. If you know of anything plz help by adding to bit.ly/gnews-layoffs-help

tysm!!

I feel like I’ve been transported to 2003. The instant reversion has been truly unnerving, watching a snapback to a time before we learned where this all leads. I haven’t felt this powerless to history in my entire life.

A bottle of magnesium supplements with an anthropomorphic banana. The banana has a smirk, a unibrow, has a strange little worm wrapped around them, and is pumping their arms in the air.

why does the banana on this magnesium supplement go so hard

Striking Autoworkers Win Shock Victory Time for the losers and haters to eat crow

Striking autoworkers win shock victory.

Time for the losers and haters to eat crow